PC gaming has largely been killed by the absolute dominance of modern consoles like the Xbox 360, the Wii and the Playstation 3. Although there are certain types of games the PC will always do better than consoles — real time strategy games, for example — rampant piracy and small sales make PC ports increasingly poor decisions for developers. And you can’t ever put a price on the comfort of kicking up your feet on your coffee table and cat-assing it on the couch.

But what if you don’t have a television? Numerous solutions are available for gamers who want to play console games, but don’t have a television. Usually, these are proprietary: a single connector that allows an Xbox 360 to connect to a regular monitor, or a PlayStation 3 to a display, but there’s few universal solutions.

Castrade’s Game Box, the CS-UHS02hD, aims to change all of that. It’s a bridge device that operates between video game consoles and LCD monitors. It is designed to accept video input from any video cable, such as the Wii, PS2, PS3 or Xbox 360, but also older systems, including the vintage NES.

It doesn’t end there: the Game Box supports resolutions of up to 1920 x 1200, or WUXGA, and will potentially upscale your games in real time. It also supports audio in from all known consoles, even offering the capability of pumping the sound out through a 3.5mm jack.

The aesthetics of the Game Box are one of the things that really sets it out: it’s clearly built around the on-end aesthetics of the Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360. It should be out later this year, for a yet-undetermined price.